Industry, Manufacturing

New Orders

Based on provisional data, price-adjusted new orders in manufacturing had increased in December 2017 a seasonally and working-day adjusted 3.8% on the previous month. For November 2017, revision of the preliminary outcome resulted in a decrease of 0.1% compared with October 2017 (primary –0.4%).

Production index

In December 2017, production in industry was down by 0.6% from the previous month on a price, seasonally and working day adjusted basis according to provisional data. In November 2017, the corrected figure shows an increase of 3.1% (primary +3.4%) from October 2017.

Turnover

Manufacturing in December 2017: Turnover -0,3% seasonally adjusted on the previous month

The price-adjusted turnover in manufacturing in December 2017 was down a seasonally and working-day adjusted 0.3% on the previous month. In November 2017, it increased by 4.6% on October 2017, thus confirming the provisional result published in the previous month.

Employees

At the end of December 2017, 5.5 million people worked in local units of manufacturing with 50 or more persons employed in Germany. On the basis of provisional results, that was a rise by about 121,000 persons or 2.2% against December 2016.

Investments

German industrial enterprises with 20 or more persons employed invested 62.1 billion euros in tangible fixed assets in 2016. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was an increase of roughly 2.4 billion euros or 3.9% compared with 2015.